Cold War Timeline

Yalta conference

Feb 10, 1944

Agreement to temporarily divide Germany

Atomic Bomb

Aug 6, 1945

United States first used atomic bomb in war

V-J Day

Aug 14, 1945

Japanese surrender

Iron Curtain

Mar 10, 1946

Winston Churchill delievers Iron Curtain speech

Marshall Plan

Jun 10, 1947

The Marshall Plan is announced

Berlin Blockade

Jun 24, 1948

Berlin blockade begins

NATO

Jul 10, 1949

NATO ratified

Communist China

Sep 10, 1949

Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China

USSR Atomic Bomb

Sep 10, 1949

USSR explodes first atomic bomb

Joseph McCarthy

Feb 10, 1950

Joseph McCarthy begins communist witch-hunt

Korean War

Jun 10, 1950

Korean War begins

Rosenberg

Jun 19, 1953

Rosenberg executions

Korean War Ends

Jul 10, 1953

Korean War ends

Vietnam Split

Feb 10, 1954

Vietnam Split at 17th Parallel

Warsaw Pact

May 10, 1955

Warsaw Pact formed

Sputnik

Oct 4, 1957

Sputnik launched

Fidel Castro

Jan 10, 1959

Cuba taken over by communist Fidel Castro

U-2 Plane

May 10, 1960

U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR

JFK

Nov 10, 1960

John F. Kennedy elected president

Bay of Pigs

Apr 10, 1961

Bay of pigs invasion

Berlin Wall

Aug 10, 1961

Construction of the Berlin Wall begins

Cuban Missle Crisis

Oct 10, 1962

Cuban Missle Crisis

Saigon falls to communism

Apr 10, 1975

Saigon, South Vietnam falls to communism

Berlin Wall Falls

Nov 10, 1989

The Berlin Wall falls

Soviet Empire Falls

Dec 10, 1989

The Soviet Empire Falls

Germany Reunited

Oct 10, 1990

Germany is Reunited

End to Cold War

Aug 10, 1991

U.S. and russia sign formal end to the Cold War